Great Quotes III: Source and Context are Key

[Oruc]

Ernst Jünger went through quite a change over his years

"Modern Nationalism doesn't want socialism of opportunities, it craves for the socialism of duty, for that harsh stoic world, to which the individual must sacrifice himself. The father of that nationalism is war."

"Again we have to substitute the sword for the pen, the blood for the ink, the deed for the word, the sacrifice for the sensitivity - we must do all this, or others will kick us into the dirt."

“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”

“It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence.”

"For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool’s motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.”

“The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.”

 

[madviking]

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

Mel Brooks

 

[Krajzen]

'I am not ordering you to attack - I am ordering you to die!' ~ Kemal Ataturk during battle

I love this one so much.

 

[madviking]

"Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes war seem winnable."

Sebastian Junger

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"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?"

Mark Twain

 

[Borachio]

Examine again your daydreams and mental imagery. Though they are perfect in detail, yet they are no less mental.

Consciousness permeating them obviously remains unblemished before creation or after dissolution of the world; even during the existence of the world, it remains unaffected as the mirror by the images.

Tripura Rahasya

 

[madviking]

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are the Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights, and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. F*** that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange, and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permissions, don't even start asking for theirs."

Banksy

 

[Kyriakos]

Tripura Rahasya

It doesn't seem to be correct as a quote though, cause consciousness does change all the time, including as an effect of a dream. What else could have happened? Even far more minor (or even non-sensed) effects or events around us cause some change to our mental world, and afterall no one can keep track of the changes going on in his mind due to their vast numbers.
Isn't consciousness foremostly the state which allows us to be there without knowing most of our mental world anyway?

 

[Borachio]

Hohoho. Now you're asking! Honestly I don't know much about this stuff, as I've only just come across the Tripura.

I think, though, they're talking about consciousness in a slightly different way from how you seem to be taking it. They make an analogy between consciousness and a mirror: although the images in a mirror change all the time, the mirror itself (assuming an abstract one rather than a physical one that gets chipped and broken) remains unchanged. Similarly with consciousness: consciousness isn't the mental contents, themselves, but the field or ground of mental activity.

Yet I could have it completely wrong.

 

[cybrxkhan]

"[Manicheism] is a Trojan Horse religion."

- random post on some alt history forum

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Probably one of the more useful descriptions of Manicheism I've seen.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Eerie.

"Thus, it is conceivable, if not indeed likely, that the second phase of the industrial revolution--a phase identified with automation and the computer--will lead to such reversion by promoting a new division of society, with a professional technical elite at the top and an underlying population without access to, or understanding of, highly advanced technical systems."
-K. William Kapp, pp 126-127, "Technology and business enterprise", The Foundations of Institutional Economics

 

[Kozmos]

Eerie.

"Thus, it is conceivable, if not indeed likely, that the second phase of the industrial revolution--a phase identified with automation and the computer--will lead to such reversion by promoting a new division of society, with a professional technical elite at the top and an underlying population without access to, or understanding of, highly advanced technical systems."
-K. William Kapp, pp 126-127, "Technology and business enterprise", The Foundations of Institutional Economics

You can argue Google / MS / FB / etc are big movers but they still are not governments. (yet, I am just waiting for Google to build a floating ocean city) Technocracy hasn't really happened yet.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

"The last time I saw a Brazil this grim it was directed by Terry Gilliam." -anonymous Tweeter about an hour ago.

 

[Traitorfish]

“I’ve really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children can’t sleep because of the sirens. This is not a good way for them to live. We Palestinians don’t talk about fear, we talk about death. Our rockets scare them; their rockets kill us. We have no bomb shelters, we have no sirens, we have nowhere we can take our children and keep them safe. They are scared. We are dying.”

-Mohammed al-Khoudry a Palestinian farmer in Gaza

 

[Kyriakos]

^Says it all. I also am sure that many Israelis think that way too. But they are forced by their own state to perpetuate their own misery. And it sucks for them as well as the murdered palestinians their state keeps generating.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

"But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You sieze the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white--then melts for ever; "

-Robert Burns, "Tam O'Shanter"

 

[Arakhor]

Seems vaguely reminiscent of Roy's speech at the end of Bladerunner. Maybe that was deliberate on Ridley Scott's part.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Maybe. But fleeting beauty is hardly a novel concept.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It's definitely an old concept that's been around a long time and appears in a lot of cultures and places.

 

[madviking]

"The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark."

- Dave Chappelle, on Richard Pryor

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“The pessimist complains about Hitler^*; The optimist expects Hitler^* to change; The realist adjusts to Hitler^*.”

^*adapted from "wind"

 

[classical_hero]

So we all should be going about and finding Jews to kill and try for world domination?